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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Hey, Guys, "cupcake-mountain?" Really? I mean, it's supposed to be the ocean, so wouldn't "waterfall" or something be better? Not that sharks could very well dismember people in a waterfall, of course.

What's that? No, I am NOT missing the point. I'm just saying that a certain level of realism might have aided the overall design...

Right, shutting up now.

Me: "Knock-knock."Rose F.: "Who's there?"Me: "Candy-gram."

UPDATE: It's true: this was not a pro-made cake. I made the exception because so many of you sent it in, and I thought it was funny. Not poorly-made, mind you; just funny!

Reader Comments (137)

I think I like that there are only feet and hands strewn about on the cupcakes. Apparently sharks find them too bony and not meaty enough, so they reckless disgard them all over the cupcake mountain. Also, the sharks teeth are pointed at quite the unusual angles... maybe making feet and hands difficult to chew.

Now, maybe I'm just being too literal (I get accused of that at work often), but IF these people were attacked by the shark, wouldn't the shark have EATEN the feet and hands first rather than leaving just that? I mean, how much effort would it take the shark to eat everything EXCEPT the hands and feet? I'm just saying. Oh, and the teeth are strange. Like outside his mouth.

Umm.I think this is the first time a cake on your blog has truly left me speechless. And...disturbed. Not by the dismembered body parts or anything...I'm a horror movie fan so I'm pretty de-sensitized to that stuff.There's just something about this cake that's like having my mental processes run full speed into a brick wall and I'm not sure what it is.

I had to giggle. Apparently that is one picky shark who refuses to eat the hands and feet of it's victims. Must not be enough meat to be worth his time..... Not to mention, why hasn't someone closed that beach to swimmers? Just this cupcake mountain alone shows at least 5 carnaged bodies.

My only question would be, where are the rest of the severed bodies? Do these sharks just have a very discerning palate or do they eat the bodies and save the severed hands and feet to show bloody proof of their conquest?

I suppose I'm not the first commenter today to admit that I just like this cupcake mountain and have no good reason -- well, part of my reason is that it's aiming for goofy and hitting the mark. Almost meta-what-Cake-Wrecks-doesn't-like-about-cupcake-cakes. And the way it's arranged kind of brings to to mind what must be the disarray and confusion of a feeding frenzy . . . okay, I'll stop now.